Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 2 | In the following year , however , a plot was hatched by the English and their supporters , which regained for them control of the city . |
| 3 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 4 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 5 | That sounds all very well and good , the way as my reading of the at least one of the writs is concerned is that er Maxwell operated this in entirely the reverse . |
| 6 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 7 | Thank you for my copy of the December issue , which as always has a lively and readable quality , with a prestigious appearance that I think well-serves the image our Institute would wish to present to the world . |
| 8 | But , in any case , the organic primeval-soup theory is not the one I have chosen for my illustration of the kind of solution that we must look for . |
| 9 | I also told David that I think there is a substantial difference between my vision of the Library and that of some other staff , and that this factor is the cause of much of the perceived difficulty between myself and others . |
| 10 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 11 | After my binge of the previous night , I wanted rest , lots of liquid , little food , and my hangover to go away . |
| 12 | ‘ I told the BMA at our meeting that I was not changing my ground , and after my explanation of the position they accepted my assurance . ’ |
| 13 | Everyone remarked on how she 'd taken after my side of the family but I could see George in her , I was certain of it . |
| 14 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 15 | The Lewises ’ substantial house in Belfast was finally sold for £2,300 , seven months after their purchase of The Kilns . |
| 16 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 17 | The first of these , the Supervision and Control Commission ( CSC ) , held its first meeting on Nov. 4 , after which membership of the others ( the Commission for the Formation of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces , the Ceasefire Commission and the Reintegration Commission ) was announced . |
| 18 | It was too late to be worrying over any implications inherent in spending Christmas with the Danbys and now the day had dawned Meredith was rather pleased she was going to be with company , especially after her sighting of the whatever-it-was during the night . |
| 19 | The maid — I think her name was Anna looked a little more tired and heavy-eyed after her exertions of the previous evening . |
| 20 | After her veto of the Alvey committee 's plans to use government money to back a new era of computer research ( last issue , p 3 ) , ministers have now postponed publication of their White Paper on cabling Britain because two government departments can not agree on how it should be paid for . |
| 21 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 22 | ( c ) Bearded portrait of the emperor Nero on a coin issued after his declaration of the freedom of Greece in AD 65–6 ( bottom ) . |
| 23 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 24 | I shall be talking to Stephen Ball and others about their studies of the effectiveness of this approach to education . |
| 25 | Staff interviewed about their experience of the care programme approach were asked to describe its advantages and disadvantages . |
| 26 | We asked our panel about their perceptions of the past year and the next year , about the economic trends affecting the country and the economic trends affecting their family . |
| 27 | Introduce the visitors to any parents who may be doing voluntary work in the school , give the parent helpers opportunity to talk about their perceptions of the school . |
| 28 | Individuals are regularly asked about their perceptions of the economy as a whole , about inflation and unemployment levels ; then they are asked about their household finances in particular , their expectations of buying consumer durables and their attitudes towards saving . |
| 29 | People are rung up , asked if they watched a particular TV programme yesterday , and questioned about their recall of the commercials that appeared in it . |
| 30 | The interviewees expressed a fundamental unease about their knowledge of the availability of services . |